<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I do consider it quite possible that this is simply a 10Base-2 NIC, and that MTS supplied such NIC's at one time (to match some ancient DSL modem), even though I don't distinctly remember this from my MTS past. A hub isn't needed - 10Base-2 has all the stations (computers, etc.) along a linear cable with T-connectors at each of them, even the two end units, and a terminating resistor on the otherwise open-ended T-connector at each of the two ends.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Man, I hated wiring the connectors onto those 10Base-2 cables! Anyone out there old enough to have handled the even older 10Base-5 stuff? You gotta love RJ-45!<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Hartmut Sager<br></font></span><br></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2014 09:50, Colin Stanners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cstanners@gmail.com" target="_blank">cstanners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Likely: PC TV-capture card, or they're really confusing an ethernet cable.<br></div>Very unlikely: ancient 10base-2 NIC to a hub somewhere with their DSL modem.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Kevin McGregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Friends of my parents have had MTS Internet service for a decade or more (probably more).<div><br></div><div>They told me that they have a coax cable in the room with their computer (an IBM Pentium 4 3.0 GHz, to give you an idea of the age of this setup; they had MTS Internet service before that in an older computer) AND that this coax cable plugs directly into their PC.Has anyone seen this sort of setup? I didn't look at it myself; this is just what I got from them over the phone just now.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Are they mistaken, or did MTS in the past provide a PC card with a coax connector for Internet access? It's possible that they didn't recognize an Ethernet cable, but I did explicitly ask if it was connected to the computer with a screw-on type connector which they confirmed it was.</div>
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